Re: Fwd: Re: Compile fails on AIX 6.1

Hello,
What PostgreSQl exact version are you trying to compile?
I like to test this with the IBM compiler.

Bye
  Rainer

On 26.07.2014 00:32, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Lars Ewald (web.de)" <l.ewald-web@lars-ewald.de> writes:
>> Hello Tom,
>> today I was able to do some tests compiling Postgres on our AIX machine.
>> And...it worked! :-) Configuring without spinlocks and readline worked fine for
>> me and did not abort after compiling xlog.o/xlog.c.
>> Any ideas why it does not work with spinlocks?
> Well, spinlocks are what uses the assembler code that you're having
> trouble with.
>
> Note that while you can build with --disable-spinlocks, performance is
> not likely to be acceptable.  We don't really consider a platform
> supported unless it's got working spinlocks.
>
>             regards, tom lane
>
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